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Spacebar Magnifies Photos in iPhoto '08

In iPhoto '08, you can choose whether double-clicking on a photo will edit it or magnify it. I prefer my double-clicks to edit photos, but every now and then it's nice to magnify a photo. To do that, even when double-click is set to edit, just select the photo and press the Spacebar.

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Surf Express Updated for Speed

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Surf Express Updated for Speed -- Connectix has released a free update to Surf Express, the company's Web acceleration software that improves performance via a more intelligent caching scheme than that used by most browsers. The update to Surf Express 1.1.5 is a 1.8 MB download and, according to Connectix, improves the performance of first-time page loads by 20 percent over previous versions. A free Surf Express demo is available as a 1.9 MB download. [ACE]

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